Originally Posted by
BrightParrot
One time at a foreign checkpoint I asked why I had to take off my belt, as it was the nylon / plastic buckle type, I assured them it wouldn't set off their metal detector.. The person was very nice and explained that with the advent of "secret zipper pockets" inside of belts, they have to xray them. I guess that sounds like as good of an excuse as any...
eh, sort of. More to the point is that some of those plastic belts have plastic edged weapons built in to the buckle that will be detected by the scanner but not the WTMD.